Radical 48

Radical 48 or radical work (工部) meaning "work" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.

工
Radical 48 (U+2F2F)
工 (U+5DE5) "work"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	gōng
Bopomofo:	ㄍㄨㄥ
Wade–Giles:	kung1
Cantonese Yale:	gūng
Jyutping:	gung1
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	kong
Japanese Kana:	コウ kō (on'yomi) たくみ takumi (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	공 gong
Names
Chinese name(s):	工字旁 gōngzìpáng
Japanese name(s):	工/こう kō 工/たくみ takumi 工偏/たくみへん takumihen エ/え e
Hangul:	장인 jang'in
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 17 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

工 is also the 28th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

• 
  Oracle bone script character
• 
  Bronze script character
• 
  Large seal script character
• 
  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	工
+2	左 巧 巨
+3	巩 (also SC form of 鞏 -> Radical 177) 巪KO
+4	巫
+6	差SC variant
+7	差TC/JP/KO variant
+9	巯SC (=巰)
+10	巰

Sinogram

The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is a second grade kanji.

Literature

• Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
• Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.

External links

• Unihan Database - U+5DE5